Jan Ritter
janri.de
Jan Ritter
@janri.de
Principal Engineer @trustedshops

Keeping things running. Personal views.
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Don’t worry, predictions from orgs directly profiting from hyping bullshit with zero consequences always pan out.
August 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Like many innovations that came before, LLMs and GenAI are best used as tools to assist those whose are already experts in their field. This reminds me of an old adage of mine:

If you give a Ferrari to someone who can't drive, you don't get faster journeys; you get messier accidents.
August 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I'm a fan of good documentation, but I also recognize its limits.
July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Using an adblocker in 2025 is a security must have, the amount of investment, software and product scams is crazy
June 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
In the Aurora DSQL preview I see very high disconnect duration outliers using the Lambda example code form the docs
December 27, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Seeing millions of GET API requests with rarely changing data by a single customer makes me wonder if this is a symptom of a "too fast API", never creating the user thought that caching would be a good idea
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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IT'S HERE! Amazon Aurora Distributed SQL (DSQL). It's DynamoDB and Postgres merged into a truly serverless relational database.

This is THE announcement of Re:Invent 2024. Everything else is irrelevant.
Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview)
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database offering unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management...
buff.ly
December 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Doing a seamingly small change on a node.js project. Prettier having strange problems, then jest is broken and after fixing both, webpack crashes with a quite generic error.
You have to love it
January 18, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Das ist eine so fürchterliche, eine so bescheuerte Entscheidung. Wer jemals einen leidenden Menschen gesehen hat, der ohne Aussicht auf Heilung einfach in Ruhe sterben möchte, weiß das.
Was für eine Würde nach GG Art 1 soll das sein?
November 7, 2023 at 9:54 AM
Generating random numbers in C
October 13, 2023 at 10:49 AM
It took me way too long to find this Terraform import block error. Terraform only gave me a cryptic error message.

The problem, the "to" string was quoted
October 9, 2023 at 8:10 AM
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Tiefststand bei der Stromerzeugung aus Kohle!
Im dritten Quartal 2023 wurden 22,2 TWh Strom aus Kohle in Deutschland produziert. Das ist der bisher niedrigste Wert in den mir zur Verfügung stehenden Daten seit 1990.
Hat jemand noch ältere Daten?
energy-charts.info/charts/energ...
October 1, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Love a good metadata error
September 13, 2023 at 7:56 PM